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the butter dish
Or, the ex-butter dish. I still have the little pitcher. Both were made by a local potter long ago and were gifts from my husband.
Other 'breaks' featured on these pages (this is getting embarrassing):
Marja-Leena | 01/03/2009 | 20 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks
Comments
A friend of mine would love these bits and pieces for her mosaic work! Maybe someone is trying to get you interested in that!!
Posted by: Joan Rough | 17:20 01 March 2009
That picture is really about loss, isn't it? Only tonight I learned of a friend who has cancer, and another whose marriage has just broken. This, in my small island community of a very small island. The blue fragments are very beautiful and very sad.
Posted by: Anne Gibert | 19:51 01 March 2009
That first photo is particularly striking, with the one shard's resemblance to an ear.
Posted by: Dave | 20:16 01 March 2009
This time my lips are sealed.
Posted by: Barrett Bonden | 03:14 02 March 2009
Ihana sininen väri, hienot kuvat!
Posted by: anitak | 09:49 02 March 2009
Joan, I am saving these in the event that I'd have some use for them in some art work. Maybe I have to take up some mosaic work myself or if I were to meet a local mosaic artist I'd ask her to make a little table top for me.
Anne, yes, I can see how that meaning comes across for you at such a very sad time. Have been enjoying your blog very much!
Dave, hey I didn't see the ear until you mentioned it!
Barrett, how unlike you!
Anita, kiitos paljon sanoista ja käynnistä! Aina mukava kuulla suomalaisilta.
Posted by: marja-leena | 11:53 02 March 2009
Last night, I broke a full bottle of French red wine--that we had just purchased at a silent auction at the local NDP gathering. Drat!
Posted by: Black Pete | 12:49 02 March 2009
We've all broken lovely things - you just saved more of them! They have their own beauty in shards, like a mosaic.
Posted by: leslee | 15:19 02 March 2009
Peter, how sad! Did you get a photo of the red stain on your tablecloth or carpet? Just kidding....
Leslee, yes, I've gone nuts taking photos or scans of the craziest stuff.
Posted by: marja-leena | 16:32 02 March 2009
Butterfingers!!
Posted by: rouchswalwe | 04:54 03 March 2009
rouchswalwe, yes, that I am on this one! Haven't heard that word in years...
Posted by: marja-leena | 10:00 03 March 2009
Me either ... that's why I couldn't resist with it being a butter dish and all!
Posted by: rouchswalwe | 10:20 03 March 2009
How absolutely stunning! Those are my favourite colours and the textures make them into something magical. Wonderful photos.
Posted by: Natalie | 17:43 03 March 2009
Why do bowls break one way and not another? What are the stresses on them?
Posted by: Hattie | 20:34 03 March 2009
Natalie, thanks! It is indeed a gorgeous blue, though blue isn't my favourite colour.
Hattie, a very interesting question....
Posted by: marja-leena | 21:31 03 March 2009
This has spurred me to think of broken things . . .
My friend, whose house burned last week, broke a wineglass on our stairs. There is still a stain -- I would like to say blood-red (sounds more poetic), but it is a faded sort of maroon-gray.
Posted by: Bee | 14:15 04 March 2009
Bee, your friend's house burned down - that's a break of a major kind! Wineglasses don't matter, though stains may. Hope you can get it out.
Posted by: marja-leena | 17:32 04 March 2009
Hmm, I begin to worry that you might start breaking things for artistic reasons...
Posted by: Lucy | 12:41 05 March 2009
Lucy, that made me laugh! No, I don't think I'm quite that crazy yet...
Posted by: marja-leena | 12:49 05 March 2009
Ya klutz! :-P
Posted by: 99 | 21:23 11 March 2009